Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Approach to Change
Appreciative Inquiry is an approach to organisational change which focuses on strengths rather than on weaknesses - quite different to many approaches to evaluation which focus on deficits and problems. Appreciative Inquiry is often presented in terms of a 4 step process around an affirmative topic choice: <br> <ol> <li><strong>DISCOVER</strong>: What gives life? What is the best? Appreciating and identifying processes that work well.</li> <li><strong>DREAM</strong>: What might be? What is the world calling for? Envisioning results, and how things might work well in the future.</li> <li><strong>DESIGN</strong>: What should be--the ideal? Co-constructing - planning and prioritizing processes that would work well.</li> <li><strong>DESTINY </strong>(or <strong>DELIVER</strong>):How to empower, learn and adjust/improvise? Sustaining the change</li> </ol>
Course Overview
Appreciative Inquiry is an approach to organisational change which focuses on strengths rather than on weaknesses - quite different to many approaches to evaluation which focus on deficits and problems. Appreciative Inquiry is often presented in terms of a 4 step process around an affirmative topic choice:
- DISCOVER: What gives life? What is the best? Appreciating and identifying processes that work well.
- DREAM: What might be? What is the world calling for? Envisioning results, and how things might work well in the future.
- DESIGN: What should be--the ideal? Co-constructing - planning and prioritizing processes that would work well.
- DESTINY (or DELIVER):How to empower, learn and adjust/improvise? Sustaining the change
